Sotto urges DOH, IATF to give healthcare workers due aid under Bayanihan law

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Senate President Vicente Sotto III will be sending a “strongly worded letter” to the national government, urging it to give health workers, who have died or became severely ill due to the COVID-19, the aid that they should receive. | DYGalvezINQ

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Sotto said he is currently drafting a letter addressed to the Department of Health and the Inter-Agency Task Force against Infectious Diseases to give the affected health workers the compensation due them.

“Today, as we speak, I am already drafting a letter, to the DOH and the IATF, a strongly worded letter to call them to give the health workers what is due them na sinabi ng batas,” he said in an interview over ABS-CBN’s Teleradyo.According to the DOH, 32 health workers have so far died after contracting the coronavirus, while one of the 1,199 active COVID-19 cases is in severe condition.

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